In 2012, two recent college graduates and incoming Teach for America (TFA) corps members were struck by the lack of opportunity that existed for...
Category - service
The Carpenter Art Garden opened in 2012 on a street that its founder was told to avoid. There were drug houses and crime on Carpenter Street but also...
The Memphis Bus Riders Union (MBRU) evolved in 2012 from a transportation task force formed by long-time activist Georgia “Mother” King shortly after...
Every week over 1400 volunteers lovingly tutor students in our city’s schools through Team Read, a volunteer tutoring program that helps second...
In his sermon on February 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. encouraged his congregation to seek greatness through service and love, not fame and...
The nephew Charlene raised was killed in 2011. Tara’s son was killed two weeks before his high school graduation in 2015. These two women have worked...
Room in the Inn Memphis (RITI) is an ecumenical ministry that serves people experiencing homelessness. Modeled after the hugely successful Room in...
Meet Grace, a patient advocate at Christ Community Health Services (CCHS). CCHS offers compassionate physical, mental, social, and spiritual care to...
For the season of thanks and giving, we share a few words and images of food and fellowship, agreement and abundance, gathering and gratitude and...
Roger Brown, Pastor of Greater White Stone Baptist Church and President of the Board of The Stone Community Development Corporation (CDC), tells us...